It's an updated and consolidated version from the comments at Jason Scott's blog at textfiles.com. What is your take on that debate? What is your definition of a Hacker? ...
Interesting discussion about the old debate about "What is a Hacker" and "What is a Cracker" ... or what is each of the two not. I left my long comments and opinion at his blog already. ...
If you missed the conference. All sessions available online (video), also available, a link to the ISOs of the DefCon CD-ROMs of the past 5 years. Enjoy! ...
Hehe.. thanks.. It's okay with the edit. I hesitated first and spelled out things nicely, but then I said to myself "Who am I kidding? Say it and get over it!" hehe. It still feels weird and unreal. I ...
Here is what the new face of my sleeping hours will be.
My second sleep lab was a fitting; they had me take an Ambien, and had me wear a nose mask, then they tried different pressures on me throughout the evening. (This time, thanks to Mr. Ambien
Actually, it's probably not entirely a secret, but here you go.
Wikipedia database dumps fail constantly.
They fail in great numbers, and are then not re-attempted for weeks. As a result, many changes go on for months with no backup. The databases
I was recently sent mail about a payphone textfile that has found new life on Google Maps.
Here it is, along with some background history from the author, which I'll reprint below:
"A collection of payphones in Santa Barbara that I compiled in 198
At some point last year or so, I discovered my box was sending out spam. Lots of spam. Thousands of pieces. I felt very bad. It took me a while to figure out where and how. Basically, I had a somewhat old methodology for allowing people to submit to
Three boxes arrived from ULINE to my house.
The three boxes contained five hundred more boxes.
Why did I order three boxes containing five hundred boxes?
Because so many people have ordered my documentary that I ran out of boxes to ship them in.
The talk I gave at ROFLcon, "Before the LOL", was captured by several entities. There were some internal videographers streaming me to the net at large via the Ustream service, and there was also Rocketboom, a weekday video weblog that puts up litt
As promised, I dumped a bunch of stuff on Flickr.
And by bunch of stuff, I mean a lot of stuff. Something like 1,200 photos so far, with another thousand likely to make it on there. Like I mentioned previously, I think this is way too much for anyon
OK, in a word: ROFLcon was fantastic.
Many other words come to mind: Perfection. Delight. Surprise. Thrills. Variety. Triumph. Every positive adjective I can think of, superlative words on the bottom of my bag that have not seen the light of day i
OK, here's your homework.
Suffer, if you have the inclination, through this episode of "Boing Boing TV", a regular feature of the Boing Boing weblog, which discusses the upcoming film Speed Racer, a special-effects laden summer blockbuster from the
Editing clips of video means a lot of time rendering them out. While this goes on, I have time to make a few other things happen. One of them is clearing out some of my junk drawers and putting it up to a more accessible position. Among the stuff
I'm putting something like a thousand images and scans up on Flickr. I guess that's interesting.
The concept, of course, is interesting to a certain segment of people. Oh wow, a thousand images, and Jason tends to collect neat historical stuff, so i
I made a discovery the hard way over the years, in the way one doesn't like to make discoveries. That is, I made the finding that database maintenance is hard.
Oh, sure, laugh at me and my vital announcement of a thing well known, but there's a more
Going through the process of making a documentary a second time causes me to come face to face with a few situations I'd forgotten about. You tend to gloss over stuff, and forget some of the sharp edges. I guess it's how we cope.
Anyway, I have driv
Oh, Trixter, you silly person.
You work yourself up into such sadness while life has handed you nothing but jewels and treasure.
You state dreams and projects you feel could not be finished, to feel like your life is going to be a series of incompl
I was at Penguicon 6.0, which is the first time I attended it. Therefore anything I say is from the point of view from attending a mere 16.6% of all Penguicons.
I was asked to speak about interactive fiction, and what hey, I have to brush up on talk
Truly, digger.org is the way it should be done.
Celebrating ten years of effort, this website is dedicated to a relatively obscure game called Digger that came out for IBM PCs in 1983. I was one of the owners of this game, and absolutely loved the
Just two days ago Criss Angel announced the official name for his new show, a partnership project with Cirque du Soleil. The show will premiere on September 12, 2008 at the Luxor hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.The name of the show will be "Bel
One of my fine users sent in the following four questions. I figured everybody had to hear my answers right now, so here you go.
When you first started publishing, did you ever feel in moments that you had some trouble getting people to notice? Did
I was doing some chart work recently, and it reminded me I have the data for a year of goatse'ing people, along with pre-goatse logging as well. I decided it was time to run the numbers. Here's some charts:
The Goatse switch-out happened on Ja
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